Pavement-curb.



L E WT am PAVEM APPLICATION FILED JULY 25, 1904.

Patented March 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK E. OUDELL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PAVEMENT-CURB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,661, dated March 14, 1905.

Application filed July 25, 1904. Serial No. 218,118.

To all "11/71/0717, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK E. OUDELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pavement-Curbs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curbs for streetpavements, having for its objectto provide a fixed, permanent, and lasting curb which shall become an integral part of the pavement; and it consists in molding and constructing the curb in conjunction with the pavement substantially in the manner hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my new method and means for constructing a pavement and the curb, Figure 1 is a top or plan view showing the curb in section. Fig. 2 is a "ertical section of the same.

A represents the earth or bed for the pavement, which is usually of sand or gravel. B represents a pavement of bricks suitably arranged on said bed. At the curb sides of the pavement instead of putting in half-bricks 1 have every other row of bricks extend in beyond the curb-line, as shown in Fig. 1. 1 then proceed to construct the curb of cement that will dry and harden and embrace the bricks in a mortlse-and-tenon manner, as represented at C O in Fig. 1. This curb is formed in a mold of boards made to shape the top and sides, as shown in Fig. 2. The rear side is made approximately at an angle of forty-five degrees. the object of which is to provide for expansion and contraction.

By the old method of construction of pavements heavy stone curbs are first deeply set in the ground. These form a solid resistance to the expansion of the pavement, resulting in a lifting and cracking of the pavement by the heat of the sun. With my improvement all such dangers and liabilities are entirely overcome, for the curb being of one solid with the pavement the earth at the sides of the pavement yielding to the pressure of expansion will effectually eliminate all such liabilities.

Having described my invention, what I claim is A pavement-curb,substantially as described, having an indented side below the pavementlevel and under the curb-line, adapted to mesh with the paving-brick, and having a slanting rear side.

Signed by me at Cleveland, Ohio, this 20th day of July, 1904.

F. E. OUDELL. Vitnesses:

GEO. TIBBITTS, E. A. TIBBITTS. 

